Archive for August, 2014

Middlesex Community College is tuning up for A World of Music, its free 2014 fall concert series. The lineup starts with On Love and Relationships: Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7 in the MCC Concert Hall (Building 6) on the Bedford Campus, 591 Springs Road. One of the most beloved

Artists Tarja Cockell and Sus Iserbyt team up in a new show Texture + Terrain: Intertwining Perspectives, on view September 3-28 at the Loading Dock Gallery at Western Avenue Studios, 122 Western Ave., Lowell. The exhibit includes woven pieces, paintings and collaborative works that blend both of their disciplines. In her weaving Cockell challenge the

OGUNQUIT, MAINE — She’s practically perfect in every way — Mary Poppins, that is. And Ogunquit Playhouse audiences proclaim that pretty unanimously following performances of Mary Poppins at the venerable seacoast venue through August 30. The Broadway musical about the magical nanny who flies in on the east wind to save the troubled Banks

Ethel Merman was known as “La Merm” during her heyday when she reigned as the queen of Broadway musicals from the 1940s through the 1960s. An iconic diva, she was bold, brassy and sang with an inimitable Broadway belt that reached the rafters and brought audiences to their feet. Stage and TV star Rita

Elements III, On and Off the Wall, a showcase of sculptured creations by Arts League of Lowell members, is on view through September 28 at the ALL Gallery, 307 Market St., Lowell. Showing their original and varied three-dimensional works are Jeffrey Briggs, Lindley Briggs, Peter Gill, Eva Glazebrook, Mary W. Hart, Dian Hosmer, Maria

Get out your leather jackets, pull on your bobby socks and take a trip back in time to the ‘50s with Grease, playing at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly from Aug. 12-24. One of Broadway’s most popular musicals, Grease is the love story of bad boy Danny and good girl Sandy, who meet

“Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?” is one of childhood’s most well known nursery rhymes. And the Whistler House Museum of Art puts that simple question to the test in its Art Quilts 2014 exhibition How Does Your Garden Grow? The juried show runs Aug. 20-Sept. 20 in the museum’s Parker

Lowell becomes a festival city each summer, coming alive most weekends with music, food and fun for folks both young and old. On Saturday, August 9 the Mill City welcomes MerriFEST 2014 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the DCR Sampas Pavilion, 500 Pawtucket Blvd., on the banks of the Merrimack River. The free event includes

She’s practically perfect in every way — Mary Poppins, that is, and she’s settled in for a spell at the Ogunquit Playhouse, where she’s starring in Mary Poppins, the musical that carries her name, through Aug. 30. The popular family musical stars Gail Bennett, returning to the Playhouse to reprise her role from the National